Amin Abdul

Amin Abdul was a former Iraqi Army officer who later joined the Iraqi insurgents during the Iraq War.

Biography
Amin Abdul was from the city of Haditha, Iraq, and was a Sunni Muslim. He served in the Iraqi Army for twenty years, although he served only for his country, not for Saddam Hussein. In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq and deposed Saddam Hussein, forcing Abdul out of his job and giving him only $50 in compensation. Amin decided to join the insurgency against the Americans, and on 18 November 2005 he met up with some al-Qaeda foreign fighters, who instructed him to use an IED to blow up an American US Marine Corps humvee on patrol. Abdul was a moderate Muslim, as he smoked and consumed alcohol, and he had to use breath spray to mask the scent of alcohol when he met with the al-Qaeda fighters (he also showed disdain for al-Qaeda's murder of an English teacher in Haditha that day). Along with Jafar Samad, he would be paid $500 for taking part in the bombing and $500 more if he succeeded, and they planted the bomb on a roadside in Haditha. The next day, they detonated it, blowing up a Humvee, and they escaped after briefly shooting at the Marines. The enraged Marine squad's leader, Corporal Ramirez, had his men shoot every Iraqi in the area, killing 24 civilians. Abdul was given his money by Sheikh Rakan Salim, and he later videotaped 12-year-old Safa Yunis' story of how her family was killed by the Americans, with her being the only survivor.